John Hughes

A prolific writer, director and producer in the 1980s and early 1990s, John Hughes was the guiding force behind some of the most popular teen-oriented comedies of the period, including "National Lampo...
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Evan Rachel Wood and Rumer Willis are teaming up for a cabaret show based on the films of John Hughes.
The actresses will star in For the Record: Dear John Hughes, alongside Tracie Thoms and Lindsey Gort. The musical will run from 6 February (15) to 4 April (15) at a West Hollywood theatre to be confirmed. For the Record will mark the 30th anniversary of Hughes' Brat Pack movie The Breakfast Club. The Hughes tribute will simultaneously play in Chicago, Illinois - the director's home town.

Sir Elton John paid tribute to tragic cricketer Phil Hughes at a concert on Thursday (27Nov14) and dedicated his song Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me to the sportsman. Australia has been plunged into mourning after the Test match batsman was killed in a freak accident when the ball struck him on the head during a match in Sydney on Monday (24Nov14).
He was rushed to St. Vincent's Hospital and underwent surgery for a cerebral haemorrhage but did not regain consciousness and died on Thursday.
The Rocket Man hitmaker, a huge fan of the sport, was saddened by the tragedy and he spoke out to honour Hughes and show support for bowler Sean Abbott at his gig in Munich, Germany that evening.
Introducing his 1974 hit, the pop star said, "I'm a big, huge sports fan and I love cricket, which you don't know anything about over here. Today an Australian batsman called Phil Hughes died of injuries he received while batting in Sydney in Australia, and the man who bowled the ball is a 22 year old called Sean Abbott, and it wasn't his fault, it was a freak accident.
"But I wanted to dedicate this song to the memory of Phil Hughes and to the Australian team and all the cricketers in Australia who knew him, because he gave me so much pleasure. And to Sean Abbott, all I can say is that it's going to take a long time for you to get over this but you have a huge future ahead of you so please don't give up. This is for you Phil, wherever you are."

So 90% of the time, sequels suck and they put a bad taste in your mouth. But, sometimes, you love a movie so much, that re-watching it 20 times gets old. You need more. This is when sequels become necessary.
1. Zoolander
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Ben Stiller has yet to produce a film better than this one. We need a sequel to make sure everyone's still doing okay and to see Derek Zoolander has mastered a look better than Blue Steel.
2. I Am Legend
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So, that cure apparently worked...but then what? Better yet, wasn't there supposed to a prequel to this film? We'll take anything at this point, we're dying for answers.
3. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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What we would give to see what everyone's up to in Toontown now, especially not-so-young Baby Herman. Does he look like a teenager now or is he still a baby?
4. Goonies
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If Goonies never say die, why haven't we been given a new movie? The Goonies have quit on us.
5. Mean Girls
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Mean Girls 2 does not exist in our world.
6. Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events
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Isn't this a series? Where are the rest of these movies? Please deliver, we actually liked this one.
7. The Incredibles
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I'm sorry, but we've seen how many Cars films and Pixar gave us that God awful Planes movie, but no The Incredibles 2 yet?
8. The Breakfast Club
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John Hughes created so many classics, but never came back to this reunite this crew. Seriously, we'd be so cool with seeing these guys together again, with the ridiculous scenario that all of their children just so happened to get Saturday detention together.
9. Clueless
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So there was the TV show, but not the same Cher, so not the same thing. Maybe you think a sequel would have ruined this film's classic status, but we think it would have just enhanced it.
10. The Mighty Ducks
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Okay, so there was D2 and D3, but we're waiting on D4, where it was rumored that Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson, please comeback to us) gets himself into a very Gordon Bombay-like situation and is forced to coach a team. Fingers crossed this happens in the next 5 years.
Now, we know some of these movies were supposed to, or are possibly getting, a sequel, but it's been years since they were released, and we've seen nothing yet, so dear movie studios, we're still waiting! Tweet us which movie you think deserves a sequel!
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Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are set to become first-time parents, according to reports.
Rumors suggesting the couple is expecting have been rumbling for weeks and the speculation was recently fuelled after Instyle magazine editor-in-chief Ariel Foxman publicly congratulated the actress on the baby news. Alongside an Instagram.com photo of Biel and Foxman from 2012, he wrote, "Congrats @jessicabiel on your impending motherhood... Looking forward to the red carpet maternity style pix to come".
The Blade: Trinity star remained silent about the rumors and the post was subsequently deleted, but now multiple sources tell Us Weekly the news is true.
One insider tells the publication, "Jess is 18 weeks pregnant. Right now they are just enjoying the news for themselves. They just want a happy baby."
The news comes just days after Biel and Timberlake, who celebrated their second wedding anniversary last month (Oct14), hosted a John Hughes-themed Halloween party at their Hollywood Hills home on Friday night (31Oct14).
Representatives for Timberlake, 33, and Biel, 32, had yet to respond to requests for a comment as WENN went to press.

Veteran rockers Sammy Hagar and Glenn Hughes will share vocal duties for supergroup Kings Of Chaos at the 10th annual Classic Rock Awards in Los Angeles next week (04Nov14). Hagar, who will host the prizegiving at the Avalon in Hollywood, and former Deep Purple star Hughes will be joined by Def Leppard's Joe Elliott and ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons as guests of the band, which features former Guns N' Roses bandmates Gilby Clarke, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum and Extreme's Nuno Bettencourt.
Hughes will also take the stage with his new band California Breed, while Scott Weiland will perform with his new group, The Wildabouts.
Gregg Allman and existing The Doors stars Robby Krieger and John Densmore will be honoured with the Living Legend Award and Inspiration Award, respectively.

Actor Jon Cryer went back in time for the upcoming Halloween episode of hit comedy Two and a Half Men by recreating his Pretty In Pink character. Cryer will appear as Phil 'Duckie' Dale in the TV special, which airs in America on Thursday night (30Oct14), and he admits it was odd to play dress up.
He says, "It was super strange and I had to go from the costume room to my trailer and a couple of the tours passed by... and they freaked out."
Cryer portrayed Duckie in the John Hughes film almost 30 years ago.

"I’ve never seen Sixteen Candles (but) I have met Molly Ringwald and discussed it with her." Thompson Twins frontman Tom Bailey on the John Hughes movies that features his song If You Were Here, which the now-solo star is performing as the headliner on the U.S. Retro Futura tour.

One-time Led Zeppelin drummer Jason Bonham has bowed out of touring with California Breed, the group he formed with rock veteran Glenn Hughes. The percussionist, son of Led Zeppelin legend John Bonham, created the band with the former Deep Purple star, but he is unable to join them on their upcoming dates in the U.S. and Europe due to "professional commitments".
The group has recruited former Queens of the Stone Age drummer Joey Castillo to replace him for the live shows.
A statement posted on the band's Facebook.com page reads, "Glenn Hughes and Andrew Watt have chosen ex Queens of the Stone Age / Eagles Of Death Metal drummer Joey Castillo as the drummer for all upcoming dates when it became clear that Jason Bonham's professional commitments would prevent him from being able to tour with the band."
Hughes adds, "We're just excited to play live, to tour, to be in front of and with our fans. We're very proud of our debut record and we can't wait to share it, live and loud, with you."
The tour kicks off in Detroit, Michigan on 5 October (14).

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It all starts with a mullet and an attitude. By the time that Patrick Swayze appeared as the legendary bouncer (or cooler) Dalton in 1989's Road House, he was two years removed from his star making turn in Dirty Dancing. Audiences already knew that he could dance, but nobody knew that he could rip a guy's throat out with his bare hands.
In the 25 years since its release, Road House has become a cult classic, both for its over-the-top fight scenes and Swayze's mock-philosophical dialogue and awesome hair. With its frequent appearances on cable television, it's never out of sight for very long, but we've compiled some fun facts to help you enjoy the greatest bad movie ever the next time you find yourself drawn in by the majesty of Swayze. Just remember the immortal words of Dalton: "I want you to be nice, until it's time not to be nice."
1. Although the film is set in the town of Jasper, Missouri, the exterior of the film's infamous bar The Double Deuce was built strictly for the filming on location in California and then was torn down. Some of the interiors were shot, however, in a real bar in Anaheim that has since closed.
2. Screenwriter David Lee Henry has said that Dalton was named after the town of Dalton, Georgia. He stopped at a bar there during a road trip and it ended up serving in part as the inspiration for his script.
3. Dalton is shown reading Jim Harrison's Legends of the Fall, which is the basis for the 1994 Brad Pitt-Anthony Hopkins movie of the same name.
4. Movie trailers frequently feature parts that are subsequently cut before a film is released, but Road House has the unofficial record for the most occurrences of deleted scenes. The original trailer had at least five different clips that don't appear in the finished version.
5. The Jeff Healey Band, which serves as the house band of The Double Deuce, had their biggest hit "Angel Eyes" on the charts while Road House was still in theaters, but the song isn't from the movie. Healey, the blind Canadian guitarist, and his group recorded their album See the Light concurrently with the movie soundtrack.
6. In a sad coincidence, both Swayze and Ben Gazzara, who played Dalton's nemesis Brad Wesley, both died of pancreatic cancer… Swayze in 2009 and Gazzara in 2012.
7. As awesome as Swayze's mullet was, the actor himself didn't like it. In the book One Last Dance, Swayze's biographer Wendy Leigh quoted the actor as calling the Road House hair style the "bane of my existence."
8. Red West, who played the owner of the auto parts store (also named Red), was a high school friend of Elvis Presley. West was a charter member of Presley's "Memphis Mafia" and functioned as one of the singer's bodyguards into the 1970s.
9. Even though Dalton famously says that "Pain don't hurt," the axiom didn't apply to Swayze. Among the various ways he was banged up during shooting was when Marshall Teague, who played Jimmy (the bad guy who gets his throat ripped out), hit Swayze with what he thought was a prop log... only to find out that it was actual hard wood.
10. One of the fired bartenders from The Double Deuce was played by John Doe, better known to music fans as the founder of the punk band X.
11. Kevin Tighe, who played Dalton's boss, bar owner Frank Tilghman, was better known for his work on television. He was one of the stars of the '70s hit Emergency! and later played Locke's father on Lost.
12. Even though Swayze is shown practicing t'ai chi, Dalton never actually uses that particular style of martial arts in the movie's fight scenes. Instead he uses moves from various sources, including the Korean discipline of hapkido.
13. Annette Bening was originally cast as "Doc," the ER doctor played by Kelly Lynch.
14. Lynch said in an interview with The AV Club that Bill Murray and his brothers like to call her husband, screenwriter Mitch Glazer (Scrooged), every time that they see Road House on TV to remind him about her steamy sex scenes with Swayze.
15. Lynch reportedly spent a month hanging around a real emergency room to prepare for her role. She learned the proper way to sew a medical stitch… but then the script was changed so that she never got to showcase her new skill.
16. Dalton had a thing for Buicks. Before he leaves for Missouri the "beater" car that he drives to protect his prized Mercedes is a 1964 Buick Riviera. Once he gets to Jasper, he buys the 1965 edition of the same car model.
17. Just as he had with Dirty Dancing, Swayze sings on the soundtrack and his song "Cliff's Edge" is heard on a radio in the film.
18. The Otis Redding song "These Arms of Mine" is used during one of the love scenes between Swayze and Lynch. In Dirty Dancing, the same song is used during the initial love scene between Swayze and Jennifer Grey.
19. Kitschy stage director Timothy Haskell did an off-Broadway retelling of Road House in 2003 titled Road House: The Stage Version of the Cinema Classic That Starred Patrick Swayze Except This One Stars Taimak from the '80s Cult Classic 'The Last Dragon' Wearing a Blonde Mullet Wig.Try saying that three times fast.
20. Road House has been a running gag on both Mystery Science Theater 3000, where it was Crow's favorite movie, and in Family Guy, where Peter punctuates every fight by name-checking the film. Not to be outdone, teammates of Cincinnati Bengals' quarterback Andy Dalton call him "Road House" thanks to his surname.
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British singer Jade Jones is heading to the U.K.'s House of Commons with his campaign to bring his brother's killer to justice. The former Damage star's brother John Kennedy was stabbed to death in a busy London pub in 1997, but police have never secured a conviction in the case.
Following a vigil in London last month (Apr14), Jones is leading a new drive urging revellers at the bar that night to come forward with any information.
A $32,000 (£20,000) reward is being offered for information leading to a prosecution and the star and his mother Rita Kennedy-Jones are meeting with British Member of Parliament (MP) David Lammy to try to increase awareness of the unsolved case.
Jones tells U.K. TV show Lorraine, "Seventeen years is too long for a family to be grieving... We are making efforts as a family to encourage witnesses to come forward. We have had meetings with Simon Hughes, Justice Minister, who has promised anonymity for witnesses who want to come forward... The people at that pub have been scared to say anything... At the minute, our brother's killer is out on the loose.
"We are going to the House of Commons to meet the Deputy Police Commissioner (of London) and David Lammy (MP). We just want to put the right people in place to help our cause."

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Directed John Candy and Steve Martin in the comedy, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles"; also produced and scripted

Once again collaborated with Molly Ringwald for "Pretty in Pink"; wrote and produced; directed by Howard Deutch

Re-teamed with John Candy for "The Great Outdoors"; wrote and produced the screenplay; directed by Howard Deutch

Returned to write and produce, "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York"; final film with Macaulay Culkin

Scripted first hit film, "National Lampoon's Vacation"

Final collaboration with John Candy, "Only the Lonely"

Worked as a ad copywriter in Chicago, which included campaigns for Johnson Floor Wax and the Edge shaving cream

Directed final film, "Curly Sue"

Wrote the Jennifer Lopez comedy "Maid in Manhattan" (credited as Edmond Dantes)

Began writing full-time for the National Lampoon magazine

Wrote and produced his biggest commercial success, "Home Alone"; re-teamed with Macaulay Culkin

Co-wrote final film, "Drillbit Taylor" (credited as Edmond Dantes)

Produced first film, "The Breakfast Club"; also wrote and directed; re-teamed with Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall

First screenplay credit, "National Lampoon's Class Reunion"

Started out as a joke writer for comedians (sold some to Rodney Dangerfield)

Wrote the screenplay for "Dennis the Menace," a live-action film based on the Hank Ketcham comic strip of the same name

Directed first feature, "Sixteen Candles"; also wrote the screenplay; first collaboration with Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall

Scripted "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"

Wrote the adaptation for the live-action remake of "101 Dalmatians"

Wrote, produced and directed "Uncle Buck"; fifth collaboration with John Candy and first with Macaulay Culkin

Founded his Chicago-based film company, Hughes Entertainment

Wrote and produced the independent film, "Reach The Rock"

Returned to write and produce, "Home Alone 3"

Had another box-office success with "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; wrote, directed and produced the film starring Matthew Broderick

Wrote and directed the teen comedy, "Weird Science"; re-teamed with Anthony Michael Hall

Penned the screenplay for "Mr. Mom"

Adapted the original screenplay for the remake of "Miracle on 34th Street"

Wrote and produced the screenplay for "Some Kind of Wonderful"; re-teamed with Howard Deutch who directed

Produced the first screenplay written by his son James Hughes, "New Port South"

Directed, wrote and produced the comedy film, "She's Having a Baby"

Summary

A prolific writer, director and producer in the 1980s and early 1990s, John Hughes was the guiding force behind some of the most popular teen-oriented comedies of the period, including "National Lampoon's Vacation" (1983), "Sixteen Candles" (1984), "The Breakfast Club" (1985) and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986). Though his stock in trade was broad, he had a particular gift for the speech and emotions of middle-class suburban youth, who were portrayed in his films with a complexity and respect rarely afforded them in major Hollywood features. Hughes' popularity appeared to fall off after the blockbuster holiday hit "Home Alone" (1990), though he remained active as a screenwriter, often under his pen name of Edmond Dantes. His films were frequently cited as a major influence on writers and directors who toiled in the teen movie field.

Name

Role

Comments

John Hughes

Father

James Hughes

Son

Born c. 1979; mother Nancy; first screenplay "New Port South" (2001) was produced by his father

John Hughes

Son

Born c. 1976; mother, Nancy

Nancy Ludwig

Wife

Married c. 1970; was Hughes' high-school sweetheart

Education

Name

University of Arizona

Glenbrook North High School

Notes

Hughes stepped away from directing to live on a farm in northern Illinois with his family.

"Hughes may be the first real auteur of television-style entertainment. He can write funny lines. He comes up with engagingly absurd situations. Yet there is something unnerving about the way he denatures real life." - film critic, Vincent Canby, to The New York Times magazine, Aug. 4, 1991